Statistics for Most Spoken Tonal Languages

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Speakers	Answer	Language Family	% Correct
1 138 000 000	Mandarin	Sino-Tibetan	100%
87 000 000	Yue Chinese (incl. Cantonese)	Sino-Tibetan	100%
61 000 000	Thai	Kra-Dai	94%
83 000 000	Wu Chinese (incl. Shanghainese)	Sino-Tibetan	88%
75 000 000	Min Chinese (incl. Hokkien)	Sino-Tibetan	81%
47 000 000	Hakka Chinese	Sino-Tibetan	75%
30 000 000	Lao	Kra-Dai	75%
86 000 000	Vietnamese	Austroasiatic	75%
20 000 000	Xhosa	Niger-Congo	75%
27 000 000	Zulu	Niger-Congo	75%
38 000 000	Burmese	Sino-Tibetan	69%
42 000 000	Igbo	Niger-Congo	69%
38 000 000	Xiang Chinese	Sino-Tibetan	69%
22 000 000	Gan Chinese	Sino-Tibetan	63%
79 000 000	Hausa	Afroasiatic	63%
46 000 000	Yoruba	Niger-Congo	63%
48 000 000	Jin Chinese	Sino-Tibetan	50%
119 000 000	Punjabi	Indo-European	50%
15 000 000	Kinyarwanda	Niger-Congo	44%
11 000 000	Kirundi	Niger-Congo	44%
12 000 000	Sotho	Niger-Congo	44%
17 000 000	Zhuang	Kra-Dai	44%
14 000 000	Shona	Niger-Congo	38%
11 000 000	Akan	Niger-Congo	31%
13 000 000	Northern Sotho	Niger-Congo	31%
11 000 000	Tswana	Niger-Congo	31%
40 000 000	Lingala	Niger-Congo	25%
16 000 000	Luganda	Niger-Congo	25%
13 000 000	Chittagonian	Indo-European	13%
15 000 000	Bambara	Niger-Congo	6%
15 000 000	Ibibio	Niger-Congo	6%